She said, "I completely refute any suggestion that I acted improperly, at any stage, in my business dealings and specifically during the period when I was concluding my involvement with Kemitron and its holding company SJMJ in 2000-2001.

"While I advised the Assembly Government of Kemitron's being placed in Administration, I did not cover the detail of particular transactions relating to the transfer of land and property between our trading and holding companies since I believed these transactions to have been conducted properly, on professional advice.

"The detail of this advice was later questioned but in any event neither [my husband] Jon nor I received any benefit from the transaction as originally conducted or indeed as subsequently amended and there is no intention for us to receive any benefit in the future."